If one googles matriarchy, one will can get many, many sites about life before male dominated cultures. When people worshipped the Goddess our human nature was different. Well, not really, but our present understanding of human nature is incomplete and distorted by male demoination. This is so obvious when reading about how people thought women were, when in fact they were as they were because of social pressure.
We have spoken less about the nature of males, but here too, the image of males is culturally dicated and not the whole truth of their nature. Everything in our lives is impacted by our culturally distorted concept of our nature.
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http://eve.enviroweb.org/index.html
As a practice, ecofeminism is as ancient as our species. Many ecofeminists believe that the nature of our species is more in line with how we lived prior to the debut of written history. This period, extending back as far as 250,000 years ago, was a time when cooperation—not competition—was valued and necessary for species survival. New archeological discoveries of early civilizations in Mesopotamia yield a vast array of evidence that an egalitarian lifestyle and a unity with nature were prevalent among ancient peoples of those regions. Theories supporting territoriality, survival of the fittest, or man the great hunter are appearing to be inadequate, if not false.
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